an interesting nugget dislodged from the reading queue re: the second order effects of intervening in libya.

if you have to deal with big ass arrays of IP addresses in perl and you need to sort things. i recommend reading the following paper.

because everywhere i go DHCP shoves its crap at me.

unfortunately, they usually suck.

i’ve often found myself wondering if W was really as obtuse as he seemed publicly.

in no particular order.

a highly recommend essay by neal stephenson.